Black Friday Console Numbers

This last Black Friday was a very successful day for Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Sony really profited with the PS3 reaching an all time weekly high sales of 440,000 units. The playstation 3 has been recieving a enormous sales increases since it's price drop in Septemeber. According to Microsoft's Director of Product Managment for the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, they just had their biggest sales week of the year. He said that last weeks numbers were more than 2x the previous week sales. Nintendo particularily outdid Sony and Microsoft with over 1.5 million Wiis and DSs sold. The Wii alone had sold 550,000 consoles and the DS sold over 1 million devices. The Wii's numbers aren't as impressive as last years 800,000 sold during the same period. Being the cheapest console on the market, you can expect to see alot more Wii sales.

Dominic Sacco
PSN ID: sacco2011

Modern Warfare 2 Review

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the highly anticipated sequel to one of the most successful FPS of all time, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. MW2 starts off 5 years after the events of the first game. You begin the game as PFC Joseph Allen of the U.S. Army Rangers where you are stationed in Afghanistan, then later go deep undercover as a Russian for the CIA. Then You play as Private James Ramirez, a member of 1st Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment, who has to defend the East Coast of the U.S. against the Russion invasion. You mainly play as character as Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson of the Task Force 141. Roach is under the command of a familiar face from MW1, Soap McTavish. He has been promoted to captain of the SAS and commands most of the operations in the games. Task Force 141 is in pursuit of Vladimir Makarov, the games main antagonist.

The single player campaign of Modern Warfare 2 may be slightly short, but it is surely packed with a lot of action, suspense, and tragedy. Some scenes can touch a lot of emotions such as the death of friends and betrayal and others can fill you with anger. The overall campaign is not quite as good as the first but its still worth while playing.

There is also a cooperative mode called Special ops, where players must complete challenging missions with a certain objective. The objectives range from killing a certain amount of enemies, to killing tougher enemies with only an explosive weapon, to beating time trials. These Spec Ops can be fun playing alone, but can be really entertaining while playing with a friend. If you plan on buying or renting MW2 you should definitely check it out.

The best part of Modern Warfare 2 is without a doubt, the online multiplayer. It contains the same Exp. points,reward system, and most of the game modes from the first game, but introduces several new features. It features perks 2.0 and new streaks. There are several new killstreak and deathstreak rewards. The killstreak rewards range from the traditional UAV, to a tactical nuke, a predator missile, a AC-130 and many more. Another new feature, and not a very good one, is the new third-person mode. You might play it once or twice but won't be playing it all the time. You'll find that you will be playing most of your time online. I must say that it is a lot more fun to play than the original and you will lose yourself in the mindless action and excitement. Overall MW2 is great game with not only a fun campaign mode, but a thrilling and entertaining online mode. I give Modern Warfare 2 a 91 of 100. If you haven't already bought this game, you need to... Matt!


Dominic Sacco
PSN ID: sacco2011

The First Iron Man 2 Poster

Yahoo! Movies debuted the first "Iron Man 2" poster. Also, it gives you a first official look at War Machine (Don Cheadle). Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jon Favreau, Don Cheadle, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, and Olivia Munn. Hitting theaters on May 7th, 2010

Benjamin Myers
PSN ID and Gamertag: fusionman15

New Photo of Jonah Hex

Pic of Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men) as Jonah Hex from Warner Bros. Pictures' comic book adaptation of the classic western series Jonah Hex.

Directed by Jimmy Hayward. Starring Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Will Arnett, and Michael Shannon. Hitting theaters on June 18th, 2010.

Benjamin Myers

PSN ID & Gamertag: fusionman15

First Look at The Losers

The first pics of Warner Bros. Pictures' comic book adaptation The Losers.

Directed by Sylvain White. Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Holt McCallany, Jason Patric, Oscar Jaenada, and Peter Macdissi. Opening in theaters on April 9, 2010. Here are the pics

Benjamin Myers
PSN ID and Gamertag: fusionman15

Movie Review-2012

It has been awhile since I reviewed any movies, so this means there will be a few reviews put up in next few days. 2012 is written and directed by the father of the disaster genre Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow). I wanted to see this film because Roland has mentioned that this will be his last disaster film and go out with a bang. He did not disappoint me. I am a fan of Roland's films such as Independence Day, Stargate, The Day After Tomorrow, and Godzilla and hoped he would redeem himself from what I think was a fluke 10,000 B.C. The film centers around the end of the world scenario of 2012 hence the title. This whole end of the world talk doesn't really scare me, but this film kind a makes me think. The movie centers around different characters throughout the entire film, which adds to the feeling of how its a disaster film and not only affecting a single group of people, but can give no feelings towards certain characters. I would say that Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) and his family are the main characters as they are in almost the entire film interacting with the other characters. The only thing that bothers me with Jackson Curtis is the originality of his name. The name is just Curtis Jackson (50 Cent) backwards, I mean come on get some original generic name even if is supposed to be funny. The thing I love about the movie are the spectacular special effects and variety of characters. The effects are amazing with the destruction of cities and the whole world. The suspense created during the destruction scenes with special effects is very affective. Hardly anything looked very fake, but very real. The Physics of the molten fireballs falling hitting the ground were so much better than the other special effects film this year when the autobots hit the ground in Transformers 2. That said the only real problem was the scientific inaccuracies and a sloppy script. Those faults are made up with yes I will say it, the effects. I will admit that this script has more heart put into it than other disaster films. The main point of the movie to me, is there will always be the selfish people out there even during total chaos, but there is people that will help others in the face of danger. I recommend that you see this movie in a theaters and not first on your home television. It will only really be worth seeing there for full effect of the film. I give 2012 an 79 out of 100.

Benjamin Myers
PSN ID and Gamertag: fusionman15

Movies Released In Theaters This Week

Movies released this week November 20, 2009.

Wide Release

The Twilight Saga: New Moon


Planet 51


The Blind Side


Limited release

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 


The Missing Person


Broken Embraces


Mammoth


Red Cliff

Benjamin Myers
PSN ID and Gamertag: fusionman15

Daily Movie News

Time for Daily Movie News

* Writer Peter Iliff (Point Break) is penning a big-screen adaptation of the t.v. show "American Gladiators". The show first aired in 1988 and broadcast across 90 countries and remade for a 2008 revival. The plot will revolve around characters from original not revival. Targeted for a 2011 release.

* The directing god Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park) and writing god Steven King (Maximum Overdrive) are teaming up to develop a limited series on King's just released supernatural-thriller book "Under The Dome". Dreamworks TV optioned the book and looking to set it up as an event series, most likely for cable. Dreamworks TV is currently starting to meet with writers for the project.

* CEO of Paradox Entertainment Fredrik Malmberg recently told Fantasy.fr that there is a new "Krull" film is in production. More news to come on the subject on near future.

* Director Michael Bay (Transformers) is not killing of Megan Fox's character in Transformers 3. He said that she has a great part and she gets enough of that already. This whole conflict was caused by Fox calling Bay "Hitler".

* Writer John Hlavin (The Shield) is writing the script for the next vampire/werewolf film Underworld 4. He would not indulge in the plot, but said its not a prequel. There is no director attached. No returning or new characters have been cast yet.

* Super hot model Tanit Phoenix has been cast leading lady in Lost Boys 3: The Thirst. She will play Gwen Liebling, a vampire romance novelist who calls upon Edgar Frog (Corey Feldman) to rescue her son from a vampire named DJ Dusk. Shooting has begun in South Africa. Directed by Dario Piana and written by Evan Charnov.

Benjamin Myers
PSN ID and Gamertag: fusionman15

UPDATE!!!! New Moon beats Potter and Batman

Comingsoon.net is reporting that The Twilight Saga: New Moon set a new midnight opening record with $26.27 million from 3,514 theaters. This means that it surpassed the opening night of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ($22.2 million) and The Dark Knight (18.4 million). That means it will get close to pass the $67.2 million single day record of The Dark Knight.


UPDATE!!!!! New Moon beat The Dark Knight's single-day record of $67.2 million with $72.7 million.
The weekend gross of $158 million by The Dark Knight may get very close to being broken.

Benjamin Myers
PSN ID and Gamertag: fusionman15

Trailer of the Week- Season of the Witch

This is the the first full trailer for the supernatural-thriller film Season of the Witch. Directed by Dominic Sena (Gone In Sixty Seconds) and starring Nicholas Cage (National Treasure), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Claire Foy (Little Dorrit). Also starring Stephen Campbell Moore, Robert Sheehan, Ulrich Thomsen, Stephen Graham and the legendary Christopher Lee.

Cage stars as a 14th century Crusader who returns with his comrade (Perlman) to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch (Foy) to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.


A priest (Moore), a grieving knight (Thomsen), an itinerant swindler (Graham) and a headstrong youth who can only dream of becoming a knight (Sheehan) join a mission troubled by mythically hostile wilderness and fierce contention over the fate of the girl.


Here is the Trailer



Benjamin Myers
PSN ID & Gamertag: fusionman15